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OF THE WORKS OF

ENGLISH AND AMERICAN AUTHORS,

COLLECTED AND ANNOTATED BY

WALTER HAMILTON,

Fellow of the Royal Geographical, and Royal Historical Societies;
Author of "A History of National Patriotic Songs,'
""A Memoir of George Cruikshank,"
"The Poets Laureate of England," "The Esthetic Movement in England,” etc.

"I have here only made a Nosegay of culled Flowers, and have brought little more
of my own than the band which ties them."

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Thomas Gray's "Elegy in a Country Churchyard,"

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P. B. Shelley. Mrs. Browning. The Ingoldsby Legends.

J. ADDISON. W. COLLINS. S. ROGERS. E. WALLER.
NATIONAL SONGS OF THE UNITED STATES.

MODERN AMERICAN POETS.

SONGS OF THE CIVIL WAR.

REEVES & TURNER, 196, STRAND, LONDON, W.C.

1888.

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HE completion of the Fifth Volume of this collection of Parodies affords me an opportunity of acknowledging many acts of courtesy shown by gentlemen who take an interest in the subject.

They have appreciated the importance of making the collection complete, and reliable as a book of reference on Parody and Burlesque, and by the information they have sent, have assisted me to carry out my design so far as it has gone.

In some few cases the difficulty of finding the authors has prevented me from obtaining their permission to insert their poems, but in every instance due acknowledgment has been made.

No trouble has been spared to obtain every parody worth quoting, to trace every poem to its original source, and to give the Authors' names, wherever they could be ascertained.

Without the assistance of the Authors themselves it would have been impossible to collect and verify such a mass of information, and my thanks are especially due to the following gentlemen, either for permission to reprint their parodies, or for other literary assistance in the compilation of the work: E. B. Anstee, Cuthbert Bede, (Rev. E. Bradley,) F. W. Crawford, T. F. Dillon-Croker, J. G. Dalton (of Boston, U.S.) F. B. Doveton, James Gordon, F.S.A., J. H. Ingram, J. Brodie-Innes, John Lane, Rev. H. C. Leonard, J. M. Lowry, A. W. Mackenzie, F. B. Perkins (of San Francisco, U.S.) Walter Parke, Edward Simpson, G. R. Sims, T. H. Smith, (of Chicago, U.S.) Edward Walford, M.A., C. H. Waring, and Edmund H. Yates.

Not only has their friendly aid cheered my labors, but it has encouraged me to hope for equally valuable assistance during the publication of the Sixth Volume, which will deal principally with the works of living poets, or with the poems of those who have only recently passed away. WALTER HAMILTON,

57, Gauden Road, Clapham, S.W.

December, 1888.

INDEX.

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The Authors of the original poems are arranged in alphabetical order; the titles of the original poems are printed in italics, followed by the Parodies. Authors of the Parodies are named in italics.

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Ye Ancient Father Thames. Truth Competi-
tion Parodies.

1884

The Lay of the Modern Millinere. 1886
The Ancient Philosopher. W. J. Prowse. 1868
The Rime of the Ancient Waggonere. 1819...
The Cockney Mariner. G. A. à Beckett. 1846
The Rime of the New-made Baccalere. 1841...
The Wise Men of Gotham. T. L. Peacock
It was an Ancient Marriager. 1885...
The Rime of the Ancient Statesman. 1874
The Birmingham Speech, by W. E. G. 1880...
The Rime of the Ancient Rinking Man. 1876
The Meeting of the Justices. 1867.
The Ancient Story (Tichborne case)...
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William Collins.

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Ode on the Passions

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Posthumous Parodies.

The Victims.

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The Aspirants. An Ode for Music.

1814
Thomas Dibdin. 1813

The Sessions. An Ode for Music.

Waring
Ode to the Fashions. Comic News. 1864

William Cowper.

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The Diverting History of John Gilpin. 1782.
Mrs. Gilpin riding to Edmonton
The History of Moore's Life of Byron. 1831...
A Ballad for all True Sportsmen. 1845.
"Prince Albert is a Sportsman Bold"
The Political John Gilpin. (George Bentinck)
The new John Gilpin. (Sir Robert Peel.) 1846
The Modern Peeping Tom. (Viscount
Ranelagh).

1868

The Railway Gilpin

The Diverting History of Tom Tucker.
John Gilpin's Voyage to Vauxball. 1885
Davy Jones. B. de Burgh. 1823 ..

Paudy and the Mormon. J. H. Turner. 1878 72
Burbaban's Defeat. 1863

The Modern Gilpin, or the adventures of John
Oldstock. 1838

Cowper's first draft of the poem

My Uniform, by a Volunteer in 1860
April, or the new hat. C. S. Calverley
The Rink had been washed.

The Rose and the Buckets. 1812

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On the Death of the Princess of Wales. 1819
Bishop Philpott's Complaint.
Lord Grey's Complaint. 1834

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Elegy on a Pair of Breeches. T. Brand.
Elegy written in a College Library. 1824
Elegy on the Death of Bow Fair. 1823
The Long Vacation, 1823
Lucubrations in an Apothecary's shop
Elegy on Sir Francis Burdett, M. P.
Elegy addressed to a little Attorney.
Elegy written in the Long Vacation.
The Woes of Change. T. Dibdin. 1832
The Gambler. 1832

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Dry Goods: A Manchester Elegy. 1833
Meditations on Barry's New Houses of Parlia-

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Elegy on a favourite Washerwoman.

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The S.K. Ring's Requiem.

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Parnell-egy in Westminster Palace.
Epitaph on "The Pic-Nic."

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Epitaph on a noted Highwayman. 1806
A Political Parody. The British Press.
Elegy in St Stephen's Chapel. 1809
Elegy for "The Mirror." 1825

Elegy written in a Town Church-yard. 1885
Elegy in Newall's Buildings
The Scales

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Pensive in a Bone Yard. 1885
Imitations of "The Elegy:

A Supplement to Gray's "Elegy." 1823
The Foundlings. An Elegy. 1763

An Evening Contemplation in a French
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An Elegy written under a Gallows. 1768
Lord Mayor's Day. A Mock Elegy.
Elegy written at Bristol Hot Wells.
Elegy written in Poet's Corner. 1803
The Nunnery

Elegy written on a Field of Battle. 1818
Elegy written in a City Churchyard.
Translations of "The Elegy
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Articles and Notes on "The Elegy"

An Elegy on the Departed Season. 1867
"The Elegy" in Latin

An Imitation of the "Elegy.' By a Sailor
Elegy in Newgate. The Satirist. 1810
Elegy written in the Temple Gardens, by Mr.

Justice Hayes

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Elegy written in a Ball Room. W. Maginn
The Elegy "travestied." The Umpire.

"Wimbledon," an Elegy. July 1888.
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Parody in The Court of Session Garland by

Colin Maclaurin

INDEX TO FIRST LINES.

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Retirement's hour proclaims the tolling Bell
The shrill bell rings the knell of "Curtain rise"
St. Paul's proclaims the solemn midnight hour
The Courts are shut -departed every Judge...
Gazettes now toll the melancholy knell
Now sinks the sun within the azure main
The clock bell tolls the hour of early day
The prompter rings the lofty curtain down
The clock proclaims the welcome dinner hour
The watchman drawls the hour of dawning day
The Chancellor has passed the stern decree
The turnkey rings the bell for shutting out...
The surly crier rings his nightly knell
Great Tom now sounds the close of busy day
St. Dunstan's bells proclaim departing day...
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